The Farm-Yard in Winter
1861 · Hand-coloured lithograph (after George Henry Durrie) · National Gallery of Art, Washington
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Currier & Ives (firm active 1857–1907 (Nathaniel Currier 1813–1888, James Merritt Ives 1824–1895))
- Year
- 1861
- Medium
- Hand-coloured lithograph (after George Henry Durrie)
- Original size
- 41.1 × 59.8 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Movement
- American Folk Art
A big barn with a sagging, snow-laden roof stands open at the centre, with hay piled inside and two farmhands at work in the doorway. In the yard, cattle drink at a wooden trough and pull at a haystack, ducks and chickens pick over the snow, and a row of crows sits on the roof ridge. Bare trees, a red farmhouse and low hills fill the right side under a grey, cloudy sky. Currier & Ives of New York published the hand-coloured lithograph in 1861 after a painting by George Henry Durrie. It was among the first of the ten Durrie pictures the firm issued, beginning that year. Durrie built a career on snow scenes of New England farms, painted as places anyone could recognise rather than as named views. This impression is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A working farmyard in snow, with brown cattle, a golden haystack and weathered grey timber under a cloudy sky. It suits a kitchen, mudroom or country hallway beside Millet's The Gleaners, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1861)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
